Monday, October 3, 2016

Votto in the 2nd Half

Here are Joey Votto's 2nd half numbers for the last two seasons combined:

Year

G

PA

AB

R

H

2B

3B

HR

RBI

SB

CS

BB

SO

BA

OBP

SLG

OPS

2015

73

325

235

53

85

18

0

14

38

6

1

86

65

.362

.535

.617

1.152

2016

72

314

262

53

107

19

2

15

55

2

0

47

32

.408

.490

.668

1.158

145

639

497

106

192

37

2

29

93

8

1

133

97

.386

.513

.644

1.157

Votto hit over .400 in the 2nd half this year, the first time a player has done that since Ichiro Suzuki hit .429 in the 2nd half of 2004 en route to breaking the single-season hits record. (Ichiro had 145 hits that year...AFTER the All-Star break.)

For Votto's full 2016 season, he hit 25 or more homeruns while maintaining a .400-plus OBP for the fifth time in his career. Frank Robinson and Joe Morgan are the only other Reds to have done it more than once: